The Applied Geography and Environmental Planning Research Group (formerly Regional Sciences) has been active at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg since 01.10.2005. The working group has its main areas of activity in the spatially relevant research fields:
- Organisation of spatial governance, regional models
- territorial protection, especially large protected areas
- rural regional development
- renewable energies
- sustainable tourism
- ecological planning
- spatial information and presentation
- GIS applications
The working group pursues a regional (especially Northwest Germany) as well as international research orientation (especially the Wadden Sea region, the Alpine region, Great Britain, Scandinavia). The working group is a member of the Centre for Sustainable Spatial Development in Oldenburg - ZENARiO, in whose foundation it was actively involved.
Applied Geography and Environmental Planning